John Franklin-Adams, Wimbledon

Minimax Play at Wimbledon

We use data from classic professional tennis matches to provide an empirical test of the theory of mixed strategy equilibrium. We Þnd that the serve-andreturn play of John McEnroe, Bjorn Borg, Boris Becker, Pete Sampras and others is consistent with equilibrium play. The same statistical tests soundly reject the assumption of equilibrium play in experimental data, including the data from Barry ...

Arctic ordeal. The journal of John Richardson, surgeonnaturalist with Franklin 1820–22

a trend towards small families, abortion, and homosexuality. With the outbreak of war, the Lebensborn's function was extended to the "germanization" of racially sound children from the occupied territories who were the offspring of liaisons between German military personnel and women from those territories or whose parents had been killed or imprisoned. Such children were effectively seized and...

The 2011 Benjamin Franklin Medal in computer and cognitive science presented to John R. Anderson

John R. Anderson is an international leader in the computational representation and simulation of human cognition. He is credited as having developed the first ‘‘cognitive architecture’’—a computational framework for specifying both the abilities and limitations of human behavior. Anderson has also made fundamental contributions in applying cognitive architectures to practical problems, most no...

Sentiment Analysis of Wimbledon Tweets

Annotating videos in the absence of textual metadata is a major challenge as it involves complex image and video analytics, which is often error prone. However, if the video is a live coverage of an event, time correlated textual feed about the same event can act as a valuable source of aid for such annotation. Popular real time microblog streams like Twitter feeds can be an ideal source of suc...

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